The Virginia Affective Neuroscience (VAN) Laboratory promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in achieving and sustaining excellence in our science and public outreach. We are committed to an intellectual climate that is at once welcoming, nurturing and challenging, and that respects the full spectrum of human diversity in race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, socio-economic status, national origin, sexual orientation, disability and religion. Members of the VAN Lab work actively to create and maintain an environment of safety, mutual respect and support.